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Niger must halt job cuts at Areva's uranium mine, group says

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Activists in Niger urged President Mahamadou Issoufou to negotiate with Areva SA after the French company said it will cut 200 jobs at one of its uranium mines in the West African nation to adjust to lower prices for the nuclear fuel. “It’s absolutely untrue that the only solution is to lay off staff,” said Al-Moustapha Alhacen, head of Aghirin’man, a nongovernmental organization in the northern Nigerien desert town of Arlit, about 1 200 km (745 miles) from the capital, Niamey. “Areva must accept to negotiate.”
 
 
 
 
 

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